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How Website Programmers can Help Your Business

A website programmer can build you a website that responds to your business needs, and anticipates customer behaviour. The E-commerce industry is a complex industry, and a web developer can help you quickly and easily navigate your options for webpage style and function, as well as creating the perfect website for you. A website programmer can customise a ready-made theme to suit your business (the cheapest option), or build you a website from scratch complete with a shopping cart system, payment gateway, shipping calculators, backup and report automation using PHP programming and MYSQL database.

DIY website programmers, or concentrate on the core of your business

Working with a programmer is much better in the long run, and often cheaper in the short term as well, than trying to DIY (do-it-yourself) your site. However, It’s becoming easier for a modern businesses to set up a basic e-commerce website and start trading using ready made available ecommerce themes. Keep in mind though, there’s a big difference between a basic webpage, and a website that is able to really impress new customers, generate interest, and drive sales growth. How much do you know about coding, and how much time do you want to spend developing your IT skills, when you could be developing your product and your business management skills? If you’re a business manager, then no matter which way you slice it, your time and money is better off invested in working on your business then in your business. Best of all leave website design and development to an experienced web developer.

Website programmers arent cheap, use a open source CMS

A website programmer can do so much more. If your budget is limited, you might like to stick with WordPress as your host. WordPress is a content management platform with impressive scope for creating individual, responsive websites. A skilled website programmer can spend a small but valuable amount of time bringing your website up to the best it can possibly be. A website programmer can draw on expert advice and talk you through how to make the most of the WordPress CMS in future, and what you can do to make your business stand out from the crowd.

All the major e-commerce platforms – WordPress, Amazon, eBay and Shopify each offer competing payment gateways. And each of these gateways is designed to benefit the platform, not always your business. Contracting with a website programmer is the best way to develop an ecommerce model that suits your business, and offers all the payment gateways that you want.

Aside from the front-end, user-visible and customer-experience improvements, you will find that a website programmer is invaluable behind the scenes as well. You don’t need to understand the ins and outs of PHP, or how to make a marvellous MYSQL database.
Why pay your accounting and reports team to spend hours every week on data analysis and compiling detailed reports, when you could pay a website programmer once to set up a system for automating reports?

Employing the right website programmers

To know that you’re contracting with the right website programmer for you, always ask to see their portfolio. If you like the look of their work, and they have creative suggestions for how they could improve your traffic flow and grow your business, then you know you’re in good hands. With an eye-catching website that works flawlessly for your customers every time, you are guaranteed to improve your business’ reputation and results.